Who deemed to have committed.

Any person whose duty it is to prevent waste, and who fails to use reasonable and ordinary care to avert the same, shall be held to have committed it. [C51, §2136; R60, §3718; C73, §3334; C97, §4305; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 12404; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §658.3 ] Referred to in §217.13